A core and shell permit was issued on November 7 to get construction underway on a new restaurant space at 4045 North Cicero Avenue in Portage Park. And while this permit fails to cite a business name, an undated pending permit in the Chicago Data Portal for the same address cites Pita Inn as the restaurant on the way to the Six Corners redevelopment.
Site context, via Google Maps
Pita Inn restaurant on Milwaukee Avenue in Glenview, via Google Street View.
The permit is addressed as 4045 North Cicero Avenue, and it includes a reported cost of $1.2 million. A Sears Auto Center was located here before the entire Sears complex was closed and partially demolished for redevelopment. The auto center got its demolition permit on December 11 of last year. While the pending permit names Pita Inn as the property owner, the shell and core permit cites Novak Construction Company as the general Contractor and, as the entity of Six Corners Real Estate Development LLC, as the developer as well. Hirsch MPG is the architect of record for the new building, while Mark Scheerhorn of Chipman Design Architecture in Des Plaines carries that designation for the restaurant buildout.
Sears Auto Center at 4035 North Cicero, demolished early this year. Via Google Street View
The development team of Six Corners and Novak Construction received a construction permit to build another single-story retail building with a surface parking lot on October 20 for 4059 North Cicero. Between those two parcels, another developer has a pending permit at 4051 North Cicero to erect a Wells Fargo bank branch. That permit cites a different architect of record and a different general contractor, and has been pending since October 23.
Nearby transit access via Google Maps
Pita Inn will be located one block from the Six Corners namesake intersection of Cicero Avenue, Milwaukee Avenue, and Irving Park Road. CTA buses on routes 54, 54A, 56, and 80 all make stops here. The Mayfair MD-N train station is a little less than half a mile north near Cicero and Montrose Avenue. The eastbound Route 80 bus can be used to connect to Irving Park Blue Line and Irving Park UP-NW Metra trains, both about one mile away near the Kennedy Expressway.
Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail
Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates
Like YIMBY on Facebook
Follow YIMBY’s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews
Single story businesses with a drive thru and lots of parking. Why 🙁?
Go to the suburbs where you belong
Agreed. This is nothing to be celebrated, unfortunately.
There is a five-story apartment building right next to it, right against the sidewalk as it should be.
Now the flow and pedestrian activation created by that five-story building will be broken-up by a set-back restaurant surrounded by a drive-thru and parking lot. A single-story building with no additional livable space.
Not a good use of this land.
Single story businesses with a drive thru and lots of parking
Why☹️?
Go to the suburbs where you belong
They’re terrible at choosing locations
Put more housing above it. At least 3 or 4 floors. Make the best use of the land and help out the neighborhood as housing is becoming too limited.
There’s mostly multi story, mixed use buildings in this area. This is definitely gonna mess up the flow.
The area where the old sear auto center sits where there building this at is two small for apartments. Also the Complext that took over sears is mix use with apartments.. the build across from the target is apartments.. the building across from where the old Sears auto center is apartments.
Also just becuase they build new apartments dose not meant the investment bankers will lower thr 2200 a month rent, the 250 non refundable deposits nor the any ofbthr other scam charges they have now.
You can build an apt building on a typical Chicago lot which is much smaller than this site. The landlords will lower their rents when there’s enough units built to leave their apt building half empty – it’s called supply and demand.